Does anyone knows of any pure Java DBMS that is SQL99 complient, no more
no less?
Thanks
Cheers,

I'm designing an application and was thinking of using reflection, but
a simple experiment failed. Here it is. I'm reading Dale Green's
chapter in the Java Tutorial, and I copy his simplest example of
constructing an object using a no arg constructor, and modify it

I've been a programmer for yonks including with C++ and have recently
started using Java.
I know that when you pass classes as arguments to methods they are
references to the class.  So this means that to return a completely

Is there any reason to declare an object as its Parent or Grandparent
class, then instantiate it as the intended class?
Example:
Class Oven { blah }

Things to do:
What I need is to open an Excel file from a web site and run a macro
on that file by clicking a button.
Issue/problem:

Hi, I'm using jdk 1.4.2 - last project I did in java was with jdk 1.3,
so String.split(...) is new to me. Anyway, I've been trying to get the
regex expression correct but not having much luck. This is probably very
simple to everyone out there ;-)

Hey all,
I'm trying to figure out some client/server code and am having a bit of
a rough go.  What I have is a servlet running that I want to be able to
upload files to.  Using the apache FileUpload code seems to make the

This has been a much discussed topic in several newsgroups, but I still
cannot figure it out.
I got this class: htmledit.class. Normal website linking to this class as an
applet. Several image files (gif&bmp) for toolbar images.

Is it possible to get the directory of the file that contains my main()?  I
have a few data files in a subdirectory within this directory and I want to
access them like this:
public static final String myDataSubdir = "Data\\";

Can anyone show me a good example of how I might do a POST from an Applet,
to a JSP, then retrieve within the Applet some value sent back by the JSP?
Thanks Ike

I'm trying to write some classes for my collaborative whiteboard to
transmit images over the network, using the javax.imageio API, but I'm
running into an odd problem: my code words fine with PNGs, but not
with JPEGs. As you can see below, I've attached a progress listener to

I'm trying to use a Java component running inside EA Server to do an
HTTPS POST to a 3rd party vendor and I'm not having much luck.
The component times out after five minutes when it attempts to open
the input stream.  I receive a stack trace with an error

I thought I aced the interview.
I went in with a graphical and text oriented portfolio, showed
my stuff in color coded tabs, showed an extensive history of
experienced programming.  I've done their project a dozen times

Hi. As you can tell from my rapid posts, I am struggling with a design
issue. I am not happy with the design (or lack thereof) which has occured in
the subsystem that I am working on. No one has yet tried to use this
subsystem, so I do not have to worry about changing the interface. ...

I want to build two classes, say A and B, where A contains a number of
instances of B and vice versa.
My first stab was to create two maps, one for each class; give each
(empty) instance an id, then fill in the details on another run,